African Civilisations In the New World

Bastide, Roger

Harpercollins Publisher

<p>Written by one of France's most brilliant and creative anthropologists, The African Religions of Brazil is regarded as a classic in Afro-American studies. First published in France in 1960, the book represents a singular effort to develop a theory of the interpenetrations of African, European, Christian, and non-Christian cultures in Brazil from colonial times to the present. Addressing a remarkable range of topics-from mysticism and syncretism to the problems of collective memory, from the history of slavery in Brazil to world-wide race relations-the work is shaped by the author's rich and original conceptual framework. The result is a compelling study of the origins and growth of a native religious environment. The English translation is supplemented with a biographical foreword by Richard Price and a thematic introduction by Brazilian sociologist Duglas T. Monteiro.</p>

The African Religions of Brazil: Toward a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Johns Hopkins University Press

Social Origins Of Religion

This wide-ranging study takes the story of Kenneth Jackson's Language and History in Early Britain on from the 12th century to the end of the 20th century, mainly by using written and oral recordings of place-names. The main emphasis is on the place-names of Cardiganshire (now Ceredigion) but place-names in other parts of Wales are also considered and they are all discussed in the context of historical dialectology."

History

World

Univ. of Minnesota Press

With its original publication in 1935, this classic work established the theoretical and practical foundations for a global sociology of religion. Delineating the transition from the grand theories of religion that characterized the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the narrower, fieldwork-based focus that followed, Roger Bastide's comprehensive survey of religion was instrumental in turning the study of religion toward ethnography; as such, this book, an early attempt to understand the broad social contexts of religion, inaugurated a golden era of religious anthropology. A pioneer, along with Claude Lévi-Strauss, of structural anthropology, Bastide combines foundational elements of that nascent approach with ethnopsychiatry. Social Origins of Religion carries out the tasks of defining religion, giving the notions of rites and representation radically new roles in social science, and studying religions as systems. Bastide brings rigor to the field by analyzing theories of the sacred, the origin of religion, social elements of religious life, religious systems, and religious change. He casts doubt on some of the more fanciful and immoderate contributions in the field, opting instead for a meticulously descriptive approach that nevertheless does not discount the value of spiritual aspects of religion. Of major importance in its time and in our own, Social Origins of Religion goes beyond historical interest to revive and extend our thinking about religion in a comparative panhuman framework-a framework of critical pertinence in a world reshaped by the forces of globalism and fundamentalism. Roger Bastide (1898-1974) was professor at the University of São Paulo and the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, received the Légion d'honneur, and was awarded a chair at the Sorbonne. Bastide wrote more than eight hundred articles and thirty books, many of them still in print. Mary Baker is a professional translator whose previous translations include The Existence of the External World by Jean-René Vernes (2001) and Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Making of Structural Anthropology by Marcel Hénaff (Minnesota, 1998).

African civilisations in the New World;

C. Hurst

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Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

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Les Amériques noires;: Les civilisations africaines dans le nouveau monde (Petite bibliothèque Payot, 227) (French Edition)

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